‘Secret’ Hilton and Avis cashback deals with American Express launched

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• Cate says:

  10 Jan10 January 13:16

  Not sure if this has been flagged but amex also showing a spend £300+ get £100 back on a booking with onefinestay. May be useful to someone.

• BASilverflyer says:

  10 Jan10 January 13:18

  OT but Hilton: Can I transfer my wife’s Amex MR points from her Amex account into MY Hhnonors account (so as to avoid paying the HHnors transfer fee?). Looking to book a redemption night in NZ…

  • Rob says:

    10 Jan10 January 13:27

    No, technically. You could try a 200 point test to see if it goes through anyway because of matching surnames.

  • ankomonkey says:

    10 Jan10 January 13:38

    @BASilverflyer, you might get lucky with this. Last year I registered my Hilton account in my wife’s MR account by accident and successfully made a transfer. I had to call Amex to get it removed and be able to link her Hilton and MR accounts for the transfer I was trying to make.

  • Mr(s) Entitled says:

    10 Jan10 January 13:59

    Mar 16 I moved 50k MR points from my account to my Hilton. In June I moved 62k MR from my wife’s AMEX to my Hilton. Shortly after each I closed the AMEX accounts so the Hilton account wasn’t linked to two different accounts at the same time which might throw up a red flag. Neither transfer was problematic.

• James67 says:

  10 Jan10 January 15:37

  I’ve come to understand that before booking any hilton property with any promotion or published rate it can sometimes be worthwhile calling the hotel in question directly to check if they have a better deal. If they do you still get points as you are booking direct with hilton, and usually get the hilton email confirmation to prove it. I would also like to sound a note of caution with respect to some of the offers you receive in Hilton emails. If the events office at one hotel I stayed recently is to be believed then some of these offers, e.g. recent autumn breaks, are provided by third parties, not hilton, and do not qualify for points. I am not sure if the latter is true or not but I thought it worthwhile to highlight it here.

• Simon Schus says:

  10 Jan10 January 18:50

  Hi all,

  I had an email about the Hilton £20 back off offer last month, promoted in the context of my BA Amex. The offer said it expired on 31st January 2017, and also mentioned the Avis deal too.

  I signed up from the link in the email, entering my BA AMEX and also my AMEX Platinum credit card. Both were ‘accepted’ insofar that there was no error for either card.

  I had forgotten all about the offer as I wasn’t making high value Hilton spends.. However, I did have two *low-value* hotel stays, individually less than £100 but together totalling > £100 (one for £40 and one for £70, both UK Hilton hotels). Mysteriously, a few days after the second stay I had a £20 credit onto my Amex Platinum Credit Card to which both stays were charged – the £20 credit was listed as a refund from the second Hilton hotel. Maybe unconnected though the hotel had nothing to refund me, for, and this is how other Amex offer credits appear.

  It should also be noted that one of the Hilton hotels (the first one, £70) was a pay-in-advance rate whereas the second Hilton hotel (£40) was a flexible rate that I paid on departure.

  Simon

  • TGLoyalty says:

    10 Jan10 January 20:25

    Seems most AMEX offers are actually cumulative spend in a period unless they specifically say minimum single transaction.

• rams1981 says:

  10 Jan10 January 21:29

  OT has anyone lost virgin IT upgrade had any luck transferring points from Amex to Virgin?

• Michelle says:

  11 Jan11 January 00:00

  Is there any way you could book a Hilton through Amex travel and therefore get the £50 off £200 spend offer but arrange it so you pay upon check out and then get this £20 back as well?

• Robert says:

  13 Jan13 January 10:09

  Must one use the avisworld amex link to get the cash back or, would any booking through avis.co.uk work too?

• Mark Phillips says:

  16 Jan16 January 10:23

  Does the stay have to be completed by 31st January, or £100 spent on the Amex by 31st January for a future stay? It’s not 100% clear.

  • Rob says:

    16 Jan16 January 10:34

    The charge has to go through your card by 31st January, so if you prepay for a futuer date you need to hope the hotel does actually charge you quickly.

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